Ethics and Leaders - Database Weekly (Apr 27, 2009)
This week Steve Jones discusses ethics and leadership in IT.
2009-04-24
1,005 reads
Articles
SQL Server Data Mining Programmability
Learn more about the new APIs for data mining in SQL Server 2005, and get an introduction to several common development scenarios.
2009-04-24
2,532 reads
Creating a Publication - SQL School Video
This SQL School video looks at how you add a publication to a replication scenario.
2009-04-23
3,587 reads
Displaying a Pop-up message in SSRS 2005
Validates user parameter and displays a pop-up message to the user and handles users response.
2009-04-23
16,184 reads
SQL Lunch with the Baton Rouge Area SQL Users Group
Every other Monday is a lunch for the SQL Server group in Baton Rouge. If you live nearby, or are in the area, plan on attending.
2009-04-23
307 reads
Auditing in SQL Server 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive description of the new feature along with usage guidance and then provides some practical examples.
2009-04-23
2,372 reads
Key column of a dimension in SSAS
When defining the attribute, we always specify the surrogate key as the key column for any attribute. I was just thinking if we could make use of the natural key instead of the surrogate key. i.e., in case of a product attribute, the surrogate key say...
2009-04-23
2,629 reads
Using The File System Task in SQL Server 2008 Integration Services
This article examines the File System Task which can perform numerous operations on files and directories such as create, move, delete, and also to set the attributes of files and folders.
2009-04-23
2,718 reads
SCOME - Setting Up Your Remote Servers - Part 2
Continuing with his series on how to centrally monitor your SQL Servers, Drew Salem looks at how to set up remote servers.
2009-04-22
6,313 reads
Getting the SSIS package store to work with a SQL Server named instance
We have a named SQL instance and I am able to connect to the instance, but when I try to view the SSIS packages stored in the MSDB database I get an error. This does not happen with our default instances. Is there an additional setting that must be changed to get this to work?
2009-04-22
2,714 reads
Blogs
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
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I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Forums
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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